i lost two friends this way. went from cool people to being psychos post covid.
before i blocked them they would spam my IG feed with anti-vax and other conspiracy nonsense, and ended up adopting like multiple animals and going on rants about how men are awful. sad, and so fucking cliche.
i mean, yeah the dudes they dated were awful, and i often told them that over the years, but they never listened.
people are confirming their biases via projection, often into extreme scenarios because those are more emotionally vivid and dramatic, than more mundane ones.
If the two characters were a gay couple you'd see very different replies, and probably a lot more light hearted ones, but a lot fewer of them.
but this one nicely plays into the 'men who play video games are awful and terrible people' trope, especially with the headline inciting that the male is the mature one here.
and for some folks in relationships, they MUST be the victim, no matter what. those were my favorite breakups, the classic 'i am doing this but it's hurting me more than you so therefore i'm the real victim' nonsense. classic! you can bet some posters who think that way are totally triggered by any suggestion they might be the problematic one.
plus you know, the weirdos who just have an irrational hatred for people who play video games and think they are all depraved jobless man children who goon to anime girls all day.
anyway, it's fun because so many folks tell on themselves without realizing it, when you put up these kind of relationship Rorschach tests.
you are the one that said that. but i see that you live in your own world where you are not responsible for anything you say, it's everyone else that's the problem. and clapping back at internet strangers makes you feel like you are winner at life or something.
We were both each other's first serious partner, we had no clue what we were doing. We just loved each other and thought that was all that mattered. It was 15 years ago so it's pretty much an afterthought. I had worse partners since her who were not just ignorant, but straight up malicious and manipulative.
or it's why i don't socialize with people who think they are total badasses who never contribute anything of substance to a conversation other than their ignorance and insulting other folks.
because they smell like shit, but they think it smells glorious. and the rest of us are holding our noses.
Yeah well, according to the women I meet, it just makes me a selfish horrible lazy asshole.
Almost every serious relationship I have had has ended because I was unwilling to pay off debt for my girlfriend. And they also all lied about it and pretended they had no debt. But in their minds, I was the bad person in the relationship...
But true that I am not stupid enough to have married any of them, or gotten them pregnant. One of them tried to get pregnant to entrap me, that was fun! Went off her birth control without telling me and then confessed one night when she was drunk.
And now I meet a lot of ladies who have like 10 million in the bank who think I'm also a lazy piece of shit because I can't afford to drop 25K on a weekend getaway like they can. But I guess they aren't in debt, so progress?
either way I continue to have my mind blown how awful and entitled people are when it comes to relationships and naively cling to my idea that we're supposed to be equal partners who improve each others lives... but it seems that is not a popular mindset these days.
ask any of my exes and they will tell you what an awful abusive piece of shit I was, for not 'fixing' their addiction issues for them and 'judging' or 'punishing' them for it. and plenty of their girlfriends 100% took their side.
people are not rational and objective when it comes to relationships when they are in them. They hardly ever look back and go 'gee that guy who dumped me for my meth problem, he was so great and I was the shitty person in that situation'.
that you are lucky and statistically that isn't an option for most folks.
I'd love to date a woman who mountain bikes. The ratio of men to women in mountain biking is about 100 to 1, far worse than video games. my chances of finding a lady who wants to do that with me is astonishingly low.
however what is very common, is for meet a woman who lectures me on how stupid and dangerous and dumb mountain biking is and that i should stop doing it. that's like 1/4 ladies I meet.
these are the types of movies hollywood should be making.